JENSEN GALLERY CURRENT EXHIBITIONS ARTISTS GEOFF THORNLEY WORK PROJECTS ARCHIVE PUBLICATIONS CONTACT	GEOFF THORNLEY 1942 Born, Levin, New Zealand. 1960-64 Elam School of Art. University of Auckland. 1965 Graduated Diploma of Fine Art, Honours in Painting. 1974 QE11 Arts Council Award. 1975 N.Z. Representative XIII Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Solo Exhibitions * Exhibition Catalogue. 2012 first sight, Fox Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 Voice of Mimesis, Fox Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand 2010 New Paintings 2010, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington.* 2008 White Line, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington.* 2007 Geoff Thornley Constructions 1978-1982, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland.* 2+, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 2006 episodes, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington. 2005 First episode:Listening to Sight, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland.* 2003 Voice of Mimesis, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 2001 edgings and inchings of final form, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 1999 Naming the Site, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 1997 Unnamed/Name Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 1995 For Don, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. For Don/Cypher and Related Works, Brooker Gallery, Wellington.* 1994 Day/Sequence, Cipher and Related Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. Drawings 1971-1994, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland. 1992 Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington. Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.* Past and Present: Monochromes of 1975 and Constructions of 1988, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton. 1991 Alba Series1984, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.* 1988 Dyad Series, Brooker Gallery, Wellington. Dyad and Horizon Series, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1986 New Work 1985, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1985 Gouaches, 1982-84, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1984 Recent Work, Constructions 1983, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1983 Recent Constructions, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1982 Recent Works, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1981 Recent Paintings1979-80, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. Constructions 1979-80 Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. Monochromatic Paintings1976, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1979 Seven Works from a Series of 10, 1978-79, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1977 Paintings 1975, Gallery Data, Auckland. 1975 Albus Series, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland.* Albus Series Small Works, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1974 Small Paintings, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. Recent Paintings, Petar/James Gallery, Auckland. 1972 Paintings 1971-2, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.* 1967 Ocean Within, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.* Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 The Truth That Lies Tell. Fox Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 Collecting Contemporary. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington 2009 2+2 A Dialogue. Geoff Thornley and Elizabeth Thomson, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington. 2006 Solid Gold-Classic Hits from the Rutherford Collection, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings.* 2004 35K Artspace, Auckland. Art of the Nation, 1940-Today, Musem of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.* 2003 Vuletic and His Circle, The Gus Fisher gallery, Auckland University, Auckland.* 2002 Representation and Reaction: Modernism and the New Zealand Landscape Tradition 1956 – 1977. Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui.* 1998 Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* 1995 A Very Peculiar Practice, City Gallery, Wellington.* 1992 Hidden Treasures, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* Hit Parade: Contemporary Art from the Paris Family Collection. City Gallery, Wellington.* 1990 Tondo Exhibition, Brooker Gallery, Wellington. 1983 The Grid , Lattice and Network: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* 1981 Contemporary New Zealand Painting, Auckland Art gallery, Auckland. 1980 New Zealand Paintings of the 1970s’ from the Fletcher House Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. 1979 The Council House: Johnston Wax Collection, Racine, Wisconson, U.S.A.* New Zealand Formal Abstraction Paintings Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. 1975 Two Generations of New Zealand Abstraction, Pakuranga Community Arts Centre, Auckland.* XIII Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brazil.* 1971 New Zealand Young Contemporaries Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* 1970 Art of the Sixties, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* 1968 Ten Years of New Zealand painting in Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.* 1965 Painters and Sculptors of Promise, Auckland Society of Arts, Auckland.* 1964 Five Young Painters, Uptown Gallery, Auckland. Drawings, Uptown Gallery, Auckland. SELECTED COLLECTIONS Musem of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. University of Auckland. Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North. Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. The Fletcher Trust Collection, Wellington. Chartwell Trust, Auckland. BNZ Collection, Wellington. Johnston Wax Collection, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Fay Richwhite Collection, Auckland. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand, Auckland. The Rutherford Trust Collection, Aratoi-Wairarapa Musem, Masterton.